Puzzle.



D. B. HTTLEHELD.

PUZZLE;

APPLICATlON HU'U SEPT. l 7| 1915. l l ,Qz'Q- Patented July 24, i911,

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PUZZLE.

Speccation of Letters Patent. Patented July 24, 1917.

Application led September 17, 1915. i Serial No. 51,165.

i To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL B. LITTLE- rrnLD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of La Grange,

county of Cook, and 'State of Illinois. havev invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specication.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved Vpuzzle-gaine comprising a plurality of multi-sided elements having a plurality of designs on each of the several sides arranged with a view of requiring a certain special assemblage of the elements in order to effect a solution of a puzzle problem consisting of a predetermined combination of designs; to provide an improved arrangement of the designs whereby a large number of assemblages of said elements, besides such special assemblage, are possible, thus complicating the solution of the puzzle; and to provide an improved embodiment of characteristic features or indicia into certain of the designs so as to serve as a key for facilitating the arrangement of said elements into said special assemblage when the key has been discovered.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of an animal block game with the elements arranged in a special assemblage, so as to answer a cert-ainpuzzle problem, namely the avoidance of repetition in the names of animals on the exposed sides of the blocks.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the elements arranged at random.

Fig. 3. is an enlarged perspective view of one of the blocks showing three faces thereof.

Fig. 4l is a similar view of the same block showing the three Vother faces.

In the device shown in the drawings; the elements are in the form of cubes 5 which have two or more designs arranged on each face thereof. These designs may be of any form or character, such as words, pictures, symbols, etc. A preferred embodiment of the invention would employ pictures of animals together with their names as the designs on the faces of the blocks but for convenience of illustration these are represented in the drawings by the names of the respective animals alone.

The cubes may be formed of wood, pasteboard or other material, and the designs may be applied directly upon the faces thereof or may be printed on sheets of paperV or cloth'which may then be adhesively secured to the faces of the cubes.4 The size and number of the cubes` are immateriahthere being twenty-five in the particular game shown in the drawings. l

The arrangement of the designs on the several faces of the cubes is such that although each design appears on a number of blocks no particular combinatie-nef designs is repeated. lFor instance, Tiger appears on block 6 with Weasel, on block 7, with Goat, and block 8 with Raccoon, and on other faces of other blocks Tiger will be found with three names of otherV animals, but the same combination will occur only the one time. Thus, in a set of. twentyfive blocks, fifty different designs will be used andas each block has six sides each design may appear on six different blocks.

The puzzle problem of the particular game illustrated is toV arrange the blocks in the box or container 9, or outside of the box 1f preferred, so that the upper exposed faces of the entire set present the full number of different designs, which in the present illustration is fifty with no design appearing more than once. There is a key to the solution of the puzzle which when discovered by a person playing the game enables him to quickly effect the desired result.

In this particular set of blocks the combination of names on one face of each block is such that the initial letters are the same, as for instance, A in Anteater and Antelope on block l0, E in Elk and Elephant on block 11, etc. This arrangement has been followed out throughout the set so that the fty different names of animals will appear without repetition only when the exposed faces are those upon which both names have the same initial letter. This arrangement of the set is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

There being but one face in six on each of the blocks which has such a combination, the significance thereof is not noticed by the casual player or observer. However, when one does discover this, it becomes a key to the ready solution of the puzzle.

The characteristic indicia which serve as a key to the solution may be varied in many ways, for instance, the terminal letters of the Words might point out the solution, or the number of letters in a Word, the coloring, etc.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been herein shown and described, it Will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted Without departing from the spirit of this invention as delined by the following claims.

I claim:

l. A game apparatuscomprising a series of multi-sided blocks having a plurality of designs on each of several sides thereof, some of said designs being repeated on different blocks and the designs on one of the sides of each lblock having a characteristic relation which is common to all of they blocks ofthe series so that when the blocks are arranged With the designs having the characteristic relation uppermost, no design will be repeated.

2. A gaine apparatus, comprising a series of multi-sided blocks having a plurality of designs on each of several sides thereof, some of said designs being repeated on different blocks andthe designs on one, and only one, of the sides of each block having a characteristic relation which is common to all of the blocks of the series and which is adapted to guide'the player in arranging the blocks so that no design Will be repeated.

3. A gaine apparatus, comprising Ia series of multi-sided 'blocks having a plurality of designs on each of several sides thereof, some of said designs being repeated on difzrent blocks and the designs on one, and only one, of the sides of each block having a characteristic feature incorporated therein which is common to all of the blocks of the series and which is adapted to guide the player in arranging the blocks so that no design will be repeated.

Ll. A puzzle-gaine, comprising a set of cubical blocks, having a group of Words on each of a plurality of faces of each block, the individual Words being repeated on different blocks lbut being arranged in dif-V the individual Words being repeated .on different blocks but being arranged in different combinations on the faces of dierent blocks, -one certain face of each #block having the Words thereon so grouped that when the blocks A'are arranged with said certain faces exposed no Word appearing will be repeated in the entire set of exposed faces, the words on said certain faces being also so arranged that those on the saine block have the same initial letter.

Signed at Ghicago this 15th day of September 1915.

DANIEL B. LITTLEFIELD. Y

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